0.18.0-rc.0

This release is a another big release. It really aims at tackling some fundamental and long-standing issues that are preventing a 1.x release. The two main problems being:

• The handling of polyfills and declaring or usage of global constants as seen in (#)
• The broken autoloading of files (see #298)

This release is an RC as this brings significant changes that I would like to pay more attention to and evaluate or it will affect big users such as PHPUnit, PHPStan, Infection or Rector.

Feature

• Fix internal symbol declarations (#706 #710, #722)
• [BC break] Update the default config to expose the global symbols by default (#710)
• Fix the support of Composer autoloaded files (#773, #774)
• Complete the support for PHP 8.1 features
  • Add enum support (#725)
  • Add support for Attributes (#738)
  • Add tests for other PHP 8.0 & 8.1 features (#729, #730, #731, #732, #733, #734)
• Add support for Symfony6 (#711)
• Add support for Laravel9 (#747)
• Improve the scoper autoload file:
  • Change the link for the alias docs in the scoped autoload (#714)
  • Make function alias declaration one-liners (#715)
  • Sort the exposed function entries (#716)
  • Declare a function humbug_php_scoper_expose_class() to simplify the class alias declarations (#718)
  • Group function declarations by namespace (#719)
• Update all dependencies (#704, #772)
• Unmark PatcherChain#getPatchers() as internal (#737)
• [BC Break] Don't allow empty string as a symbol regex or name (#741)
• [BC Break] Remove the deprecated whitelist setting (#742)
• Add output-dir configuration option (#632)
• Add Configuration::withPatcher() factory (#749)
• [BC Break] Remove deprecated ConfigurableScoper (#705)

Bugfixes

• Fix InstalledVersions installed (#712)
• Use the recorded symbols to decide when to add the class_alias statements (#724)
• Preserve the files permissions (#753)
• Fix the inspect-symbol command slowness (#755)
• Fix regex cannot have the i flag (#759)
• Fix define check of class constant (#745, #746)

Misc

• Various documentation improvements (#739, #744, #763, #768, #770)
• Various internal refactorings (#702 #717, #720, #723, #735, #740, #743, #750, #754, #756, #758, #761, #764, #757, #760, #765, #766, #767, #769, #775, #776)
• Set bamarni.foward-command to false (#703)
• Add a build to check dependencies for security vulnerabilities (#736)
• Consolidate some tests (#709, #721, #748, #777, #778, #779)